Old friends, new roles – Team CRI Update

The internet and social media have changed the way media outlets work. The ability to connect so many like-minded people on a single platform to debate and discuss ideas has never been easier. It has made media a participative venture. Some believe this is a new phenomenon. Some say this is just a return to the ways of olden days when the pioneers of science, literature and other fields ran their own little journals to serve a small circle of interested minds and friends. And then came the industrial age and with that came mass media where participation was restricted to coughing up your subscription in return for bulks of paper.

At CRI we are careful not to forget how it all began. We could not have built an online thoughts and opinion portal for the thinking political enthusiast without the key ingredient of participation. It is what keeps the dialogue going. Admittedly, it’s a bit harder to keep the dialogue going when our little venture clocks more than 25,000 unique visitors a month. To make sure Team CRI continues to produce thoughts that plant little dopamine blasts in your brains and to make sure we are listening to you as always the Editors have persuaded some of the most brilliant minds in the centre-right ecosystem to join the editorial team.

Aravindan Neelakantan, Harsh Gupta and Sandeep Balakrishna join us as Contributing Editors. The three of them have been our close friends and critics. Aravindan’s scholarly interventions, Harsh’s insights on economics and Sandeep’s deep knowledge of our cultural heritage make for a brilliant combination to bring to our readers.

Sunanda Vashisht comes on board as our Community Editor. Her prolific current affairs commentary and Twitter presence have given her a huge fan following. She has been a friend and not so much of a critic as the others are but with the new role we look forward to being scolded a little bit more than usual.

Dosabandit is leaving the editorial team. It is widely rumored that his resignation may have been triggered by a certain CRI editor’s aversion towards idly-dosa cuisine. We thank Dosabandit for his time and contribution to CRI. We also thank him for not leaking his resignation letter to the media thereby saving us the embarrassment of having to go to someone in Nagpur to smoothen ruffled feathers.

It is an honor and privilege to host these individuals of much learning and insight on CRI. We hope they will bear in mind all the nice things we have said about them here when plotting a coup during the upcoming national executive in Goa.

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am sorry, but sandeep balakrisha, for all his intellect, is also one of the nastiest persons I’ve ever encountered online. His regular diatribes against people of any religions other than Hinduism is enough to make one dislike all Hindus on principle. Of course, he’s not the gold standard for the tolerant, peace-loving Hindu, so I do have hope for our religion.

Skanda

Is he nasty with nasty people or with sane and learned men? The whole “Internet Hindoo” thing that people make noise about, is just because Hindus are now speaking out with the advent of internet, and are giving back in the same coin to the calumny specialists. So far it has just been a one-way traffic, calumny, abuse and hate flowing in one direction – the corrective won’t be pleasing to your eyes and ears, and it doesn’t have to be.

NewFangled

LOL 🙂 Nice…

Vikram

The ‘tolerant, peace-loving’ Hindu is largely responsible for the troubles facing India. If only we had been more intolerant of double standards, distortion of our faith & culture, our inept leadership + willing to confront anti-nationals head on, rather than couch our inaction as love for peace….we might have been far better off today. I think SB is an abrasive personality who has no time for foolish half-baked theories & hits hard at his opponents, but I have not detected any strand of intolerance for ALL people of other religions – his interventions are as per the merits of the topic under discussion.

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